Here's Ek's latest post on his Top 5 Players to earn NHL contracts on try-outs. He talks about how some guys will try-out with the team and sign with another because of that team's depth. However, he seems to think the Wings lack depth and will add Johnson after his try-out.

I am not saying there is no way Johnson could make the Wings, but to say the Wings have a depth issue is kind of redundant. If they had an issue with depth they could have kept Drapes and then spent some of the pile of cash they have left over filling in some more players.

I admittedly (and shamefully) follow Eklund on Twitter just because my mind is always blown by his predictions and despite the fact he has about a 1% success rate as soon as he is right he is the first person to blow his own horn and talk about how he called it 3 weeks ago.

"Push the dirt off your jersey then go for the cup or the trophy or the ring, champion no matter what."

Even if he DOES have the inside scoop on some breaking stories, it doesn't excuse this opinion piece. None of his "inside sources" told him about this one. That's straight-up his own opinion that Johnson will make the Wings this year. I hope he's wrong for the 1001st time on this one...

I'm not trying to defend Eklund, but I don't see what the big deal is. Eklund never writes that the Wings lack depth... he says Johnson still has a lot of game left in him and that other teams considered signing him as a UFA. He also suggests Johnson is the type of player that fits with the Wings... I didn't see even one derogatory statement against the Wings... In my opinion, it's just the opposite. Ecklund is not pointing out some sort of mistake by the Wings... he seems to be saying that Ken Holland did the BEST job finding potential talent among all of the try-outs offered around the league...

If you put all the players names, millions of random salary numbers, different positions, different scenarios, different injuries, etc. into a giant hat and just randomly picked crap out of it, you'd have more accurate hockey predictions than Ecklund makes.

It wouldn't surprise me to see Emmerton and Johnson split games. Johnson is one of the top 3 shot blockers and face-off men in the entire league. He would be very helpful against some of the better teams in the league while Cory can play against the Oiler and Panther teams of the league.

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